Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Now Senator Cadell, on behalf of the National Party, has squealed and objected to water buybacks. I can tell you someone in this parliament who likes water buybacks, and his name is Angus Taylor, the Leader of the Opposition. Who can remember Mr Taylor's involvement in that dodgy $80 million deal signed off by Barnaby Joyce, who used to be a member of the National Party as well? Barnaby Joyce, as the then minister for water, signed off an $80 million deal to buy water from a company linked to Angus Taylor and headquartered in the Cayman Islands. That's how much the Liberal and National parties hate water buybacks: they want to get in on them, especially when there's an $80 million deal at stake. You have no credibility on water, and that is why Australians are walking away from you.